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Kristen Stewart accepts the Best Movie award from Jodie Foster onstage during the 2012 MTV Movie Awards in June 3.

Actress Jodie Foster attends Comic-Con in San Diego in July.

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Jodie Foster arrives at the premiere of ''Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows'' in Los Angeleson Tuesday.

There's Mel! Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson pose on the red carpet for the screening of The Beaver at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday.

Foster, left, stands by her friend Gibson. He has been laying low during publicity for their film, The Beaver, since his scandals with abusive language toward his former girlfriend.

Foster joins Gibson at the premiere of his film Edge of Darkness in Los Angeles. Gibson has had more ugly scandals than hit movies in the past five years, but Foster stands by him: "We both have been working as actors for 45 years. Forty-five years is a long time to do one thing. As an actor, the only reason for him to do it is because it moves him and he loves something. That's it. He doesn't have to prove anything."

Foster starred as a scientist on the hunt for extraterrestrial life in Contact. "Half of what has made my career unusual or has almost an auteur quality to it is that I choose for very different reasons. Maybe it's because I didn't go to Juilliard and I'm not really a natural actor. In order for me to be moved, I need different things. I need a piece of literature behind it that obsesses me."

Foster cuts a fine figure on the red carpet of the 14th Annual Hollywood Awards Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. After a 45-year career, "I'm a pretty well-adjusted person," she says. "I can't look back at the tragedies of my life and whine about them. I have to have the ability to cut them off the second they become melodramatic and not have them be saccharine and to laugh at them in some way."

Foster arrives at the 25th Film Independent's Spirit Awards at Nokia Event Deck in Los Angeles. "I make movies that are the story of my life," she says.

Foster mingles with extras and staff during filming of Anna and The King in Penang, Malaysia, in 1999. She calls her co-star Chow Yun-fat "the other most-beloved actor I've ever worked with," second only to Gibson.

Anthony Hopkins, back to camera, and Foster in 1991's landmark The Silence of the Lambs, for which Foster received her second best-actress Oscar. Despite her success, Foster could see herself doing something else. "I think about it a lot. I think I would have been a writer somehow. I could have been a lawyer -- I have that reasoning thing. I could have been a teacher. I love to talk. I could have been a speechwriter."

Jodie Foster, photographed here at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel, directs and stars with Mel Gibson in the new film The Beaver. Says Foster: "It's the movie I really wanted to make. I was moved by a movie that talked about so many incredibly deep things, and things that touched me about family and sadness and loneliness. I don't think I would change anything."

Foster, left, and Kelly McGillis in 1988's The Accused, for which Foster received her first Oscar for best actress. Back then, Foster says, she was persona non grata in Hollywood. "I'd been in college for five years. I hadn't done any movie that had done well. They didn't even want me to audition. I didn't get paid for it. That was a movie you did just for the performance."

Foster, left, and Gibson, second from right, work behind the scenes on the set of The Beaver. In the film, Gibson is morose and pudgy, a man who has let himself go in every sense. "He doesn't look like that now," Foster says. "I saw him last week. He's skinny and tan and handsome. That's not who he is. That's his character. It's a great performance."

Foster walks the red carpet alone before a screening of The Beaver at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin. Her co-star Gibson has kept a low profile after scandals involving his former girlfirend and the mother of his youngest child. "I feel badly that he's not here because he's great in this," Foster says. "He really loves the movie. I wish he was hearing people's feedback."

Jodie Foster arrives at the Ed Sullivan Theater to tape Late Show With David Letterman on Thursday in New York. Foster is making the rounds to promote her new movie, The Beaver.

Director and cast member Jodie Foster attends a special screening of her new movie, The Beaver, on Wednesday in New York. No sign of Foster's leading man, Mel Gibson, at least not on the photo line. The movie open in theatres on Friday.

Jodie Foster was on hand to introduce 1991's The Silence of the Lambs to the AFI crowd.

Here she cuddles with Bullseye, the mascot of event sponsor Target, before heading inside to talk about the creepy classic, which won five Oscars. Among its haul: best picture, director, adapted screenplay and both lead actor trophies.

Foster labeled Silence "a real genre film, one that is incredibly entertaining and yet incredibly complex ... There is absolutely no reason in the world why those two things can't be combined."

A phalanx of famous folks converge at the American Film Institute's A Night at the Movies celebration Wednesday in Los Angeles.

Jodie Foster hit the Thunder premiere, too. Even though her summer flick Nim's Island bombed at the box office, she still made it into the top 10 of Forbes' list of top-earning actresses. Foster is No. 6 with an estimated income of $23 million for the year.

Jodie Foster submits to the will of photographers during a news conference for Nim's Island Thursday in Rome.

Jodie Foster chats with Dreamworks exec Jeffrey Katzenberg at Wednesday's opening of the Saban Center for Health and Wellness in Woodland Hills, Calif.
The facility, which was bankrolled by the Motion Picture & Television Fund, is intended to serve the 400 residents who live at the retirement community as well as the thousands of entertainment industry seniors who live throughout Southern California.

The Brave One star Jodie Foster, embraces her co-stars, Zoe Kravitz, left, and Dennis White.
If Kravitz looks familiar, it's because the 18-year-old is the daughter of singer Lenny Kravitz and former Cosby Show star Lisa Bonet.

The Brave One co-stars Jodie Foster and Terrence Howard go on autograph patrol at their film's Toronto Film Festival premiere on Thursday.

The Brave One star Jodie Foster makes her best "aw, shucks" face at the film's Tokyo premiere on Wednesday.